On April 14, 2009, it became known that the Samara District Court of the city of Samara refused to satisfy the suit extremist . of the prosecutor's office for the recognition of the brochure "Novruz Holiday and Islamic Doctrine" and the site "Islam as it is" as The prosecutor's office tried to find signs of incitement to hatred in the brochure, which was also published on the website "Islam as it is".

In 2009, the government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region will allocate 800,000 rubles from the regional budget for the restoration of the Nizhny Novgorod Cathedral Mosque. This was reported by the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The money will be used to strengthen the foundation of the mosque, which has suffered due to ongoing construction work. In 2008, the government gave the mosque the status of a monument of history and culture of federal significance.

On April 15, at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, an appeal was adopted to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. In this document, the deputies ask to give the celebration of Orthodox Easter an all-Russian status. The author of the appeal is the deputy Viktor Evtukhov. Recall that in March 2009, on his initiative, Easter was declared a city holiday in St. Petersburg.

In Tambov, several graves were desecrated at various cemeteries in the city and nearby settlements. On April 11, a grave cross was stolen at the Polynkovsky cemetery. In Michurinsk, a cast-iron fence was stolen that separated one grave from other burials. The police do not exclude the version of desecration with the aim of stealing non-ferrous metal. Sources On the eve of Easter, many Tambov residents found the graves of their relatives desecrated // IA Tatar-inform. 2009. April 14.

On April 13, 2009, it became known that the prosecutor of the Berezovsky district issued a motion to eliminate violations of anti-extremist legislation to the head of the district administration, which is the founder of the Selskaya Nov newspaper. The violations discovered by the prosecutor's office are that the editorial office did not have the Federal List of Extremist Materials and that the newspaper does not have a person responsible for reconciling published materials with the list.

April 14, 2009 in Moscow on the street. Khachaturian (Otradnoye) at 21:10, a Land Rover car was blown up. No details were released about this incident in April. It was only known that people were not injured, but four more cars were damaged by the blast, standing next to the blown up car. In August 2009, it became known that a minor (born 1993) neo-Nazi, who, according to investigators, was involved in a series of similar crimes, was a suspect in the case of this crime.

On April 9, 2009, the head of the Yeisk branch of the Slavic Union (Kuban), Dmitry Parshin, was charged under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). On the same day, his apartment was searched. A system unit and a mobile phone were confiscated from Parshin. Based on materials from right-wing radical sites

On April 15, 2009, in Yerevan, after a meeting of the Ministers of Internal Affairs of the CSTO countries, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Rashid Nurgaliyev, stated that a wide network of extremist cells had been uncovered in Russia. According to him, "In recent months, a large network of extremist cells has been uncovered on the territory of Russia, in whose activities there are signs of an encroachment on the life and health of citizens .

*We received a response from the AGORA Association to our criticism of their speech against MP Abeltsev. This response was published on the Open News Agency website and is also reproduced below . Let us briefly respond.* We welcome the opportunity to continue the discussion on issues that are rarely discussed in the human rights community.

In the article "Furious Human Rights Defenders", Mikhail Sitnikov criticized the position of the co-chairs of the Institute for Freedom of Conscience Sergei Mozgovoy and Sergei Buryanov regarding the need for the existence of an institute of religious expertise. It should be reminded that on April 12, the Institute sent a statement addressed to the President stating the need to abolish the Institute of Religious Expertise. M. Sitnikov points out that the position expressed by S. Mozgov and S.

On April 14, 2009, the Interregional Human Rights Association "AGORA" reported that it had applied to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office (SKP), with a report on a criminal offense allegedly committed by LDPR deputy Sergei Abeltsev. Lawyers of "AGORA" saw in a brief interview with S.

On April 15, 2009, it became known that in Kaluga a 22-year-old man was charged under paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or hostility, as well as humiliation of the dignity of a person or a group of persons on the grounds of belonging to a social group, committed publicly, with the use of violence). A man is accused of assaulting a homeless man in August 2005. The video of the beating was posted online.

Edited by Alexander Verkhovsky Summary Manifestations of radical nationalism : Violence : Vandalism : The activity of right-wing radical organizations : The expansion of nationalism into public life Counteracting radical nationalism : The international level : Legislation and structural changes in government bodies : Criminal proceedings : Federal lists of extremist organizations and materials : Other Appendices.

In 2008, ten cells of the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami terrorist organization were liquidated in Russia, Colonel-General Alexei Sedov, head of the Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combating Terrorism of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, said. He noted that at the moment 18 organizations are recognized as terrorist in Russia.